Biden Administration
October 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
That was Casey Stengel’s famous evaluation of his 1962 Mets team, which lost more games than any major league team until the White Sox bested their record this year. But Casey’s lament could equally well be applied to our federal government. Are all of our agencies incompetent? Is there any federal operation, the most lavishly funded in world history, that can actually get anything done? It doesn’t seem so. I
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October 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
You may have missed the news that Karine Jean-Pierre has been promoted from the position of White House press secretary to senior adviser. Whom is she advising? As KJP’s predecessor liked to put it, we’ll have to circle back to you on that one. The Biden administration has recently announced that it is sending $157 million in additional funding to Lebanon. Lebanon has no independent government. The government is under
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October 5, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In Memories of Hurricane Katrina, I contrasted press coverage and Democratic Party hysteria over Hurricane Katrina, which effectively destroyed George W. Bush’s second term and contributed to the Democrats’ 2006 election victories, with the muted (if not altogether silent) reaction to Hurricane Helene and the vastly more problematic governmental response thereto. It is a theme worth returning to. On CNN, Scott Jennings makes the point effectively: Joe Biden was at
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October 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced today that FEMA is running out of money for hurricane relief: The Federal Emergency Management Agency can meet immediate needs but does not have enough funding to make it through the hurricane season, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters Wednesday. *** “We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” Mayorkas said. “FEMA does
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October 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It is no coincidence that, in last night’s debate, immigration was the issue on which the moderators intervened to try to stop the Democratic Party’s bleeding. The Biden/Harris administration’s immigration policies have been disastrous, unless they are actually trying to destroy our country. In which case they make perfect sense. My colleague David Zimmer recaps the Biden/Harris debacle by the numbers. There is more at the link; here are some
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September 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Hurricane Helene has devasted a wide swath of the Southeast, especially portions of North Carolina. Of course this has nothing to do with the government. A hurricane is what used to be known, quaintly, as an act of God. But some of us remember with bitterness how the Democratic Party press blamed President Bush for Hurricane Katrina, and used that absurd narrative to destroy Bush’s second term. The idea of
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September 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
This past Friday Kamala Harris made a rare appearance at the border wall near Tucson. Harris proposed fake restrictions that would have no effect on the invasion of illegal aliens that she invited, facilitated, and then lied about during her years in office as vice president in the incumbent administration. The video below compiled by the Daily Caller includes clips from Harris’s Meet the Press interview in September 2022 (transcript
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September 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden invited, aided, and abetted the massive wave of illegal immigration that we have seen — or experienced even if we haven’t been looking — since the first day of his administration. Vice President Harris campaigned in 2109 on the same theme and has served as Biden’s faithful ally in abetting the invasion since her election along with him. The invasion has a panoply of adverse effects that include
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September 19, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
According to Examining Widespread Fraud in Pandemic Unemployment Relief Programs, a recent report from the House Oversight Committee, taxpayers were ripped off for some $191 billion. A key player in the widespread fraud is Biden-Harris labor secretary Julie Su, former secretary of California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency in charge of the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD). As the report notes: EDD, under leadership of Labor and Workforce Development Agency
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September 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
There are several great issues on which the presidential election (and Congressional elections, too) should turn. One is our out of control national debt, which promises to first hamstring our government, then bankrupt us. But no one is talking about it. Another is America’s deteriorating military readiness. The Europeans are scrambling to defend themselves against possible Russian attack; that in itself is a good thing. But they are doing it
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September 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Gwen Walz is said to be even farther to the left than her husband Tim. I don’t know about that; there is very little room on Tim’s left. But one thing we know for sure about Gwen is that she chose Communist China, not long after Tiananmen Square, as the ideal place for a honeymoon. Gwen Walz appeared with her husband at a rally and went on this embarrassing rant,
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August 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Dem presidential ticket of Vice President Harris and Governor Tim Walz appeared for an alleged interview by Dana Bash on CNN last night. As I saw it, it should be all over for Harris, Walz, Bash, and CNN. What a pathetic display. The interview in Georgia had been recorded during the afternoon. The questions were lighter than air — as were Harris’s responses. Bash’s lame questions elicited vacuous responses.
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August 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
When we refer to President Biden at this time, it must be in the metaphorical or Pickwickian sense. Since his defenestration from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination that he had secured, as Mose Allison might put it, what is left of his mind is on vacation. His mouth is not working overtime. We don’t know who is running the show. Some day we may be entrusted with the
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August 27, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg wrote a letter to Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The letter relates to the committee’s investigation of the Biden administration’s war on free speech. This is the most significant language: In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with
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August 22, 2024 — Steven Hayward
In a typical moment for Joe Biden Monday night, he said in his convention/farewell shoutfest that “women have electrical power.” He actually repeated the adjective because he couldn’t get “electoral” out of his mumble mouth, but it is possible it isn’t a mistake after all, and perhaps represents the kind of slip that conveys a deeper belief—namely, that the Biden Administration’s pro-green electricity mania has even reached those beings still
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August 21, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
The Biden-Harris administration, Fox News reports, has appointed Sneha Nair as a special assistant at the National Nuclear Security Administration. Prior to the appointment, Nair served as a research analyst with the Nuclear Security Program at the Stimson Center. The special assistant earned a masters in geography and international relations from the University of St. Andrews, but there’s more to her. Sneha Nair is co-author of “Queering nuclear weapons: How
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August 18, 2024 — John Hinderaker
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an emergency application by the Biden Administration for partial stays on orders entered by district courts and affirmed by the Fifth and Sixth Circuits. As usual in such cases, the Court’s order was Per Curiam. The order lays out the procedural history succinctly: The Department of Education recently issued a new rule implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The rule
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